03-02-2005, 03:00 PM
Your post rates a "well said!" from me. :D A few rejoinders.
Point 1. Starving artist is a cliché state of being based on reality. My brother walked in those shoes for some years as a guitar player.
Point 2. Remember The Last Poets? Street Rappers of the 70's. There stuff was stripped down rhythmic chant without techno wrapper. Socially fuelled. More Black Panther than Gangsta.
Aye. In the age of MTV, what is a song? In their case, it is generally a burlesque. See also Shania Twain, best paid visual lap dancer in Nashville.
Techno strikes me as contextual, just as disco was. Disco being played at a dance club fit, disco on the radio did not really fit IMO. (Tastes Differ) Soul on your car radio, on the other hand, was a way to add warmth to your drive.
Indeed. Square dancing callers fit into a sqaure dancing event, but I don't want to listen to one on a radio either. :blink: A little Waylon and Willie, on the other hand, can fit in just right, although for driving music, I prefer ZZ Top.
Occhi
Quote: Meanwhile, the street poets struggle at the open mic nights.
Point 1. Starving artist is a cliché state of being based on reality. My brother walked in those shoes for some years as a guitar player.
Point 2. Remember The Last Poets? Street Rappers of the 70's. There stuff was stripped down rhythmic chant without techno wrapper. Socially fuelled. More Black Panther than Gangsta.
Quote:However, is this really any different from Paula Abdul or Madonna getting the credit for singing dance tracks made by slick producers?
Aye. In the age of MTV, what is a song? In their case, it is generally a burlesque. See also Shania Twain, best paid visual lap dancer in Nashville.
Quote:I think it's just an inevitable consequence of musical recording/editting/playback processes getting good enough to be useful. The singer/rapper in front gives the music the basic lyrics and personality that people cling to, which are probably the main things that holds techno back.
Techno strikes me as contextual, just as disco was. Disco being played at a dance club fit, disco on the radio did not really fit IMO. (Tastes Differ) Soul on your car radio, on the other hand, was a way to add warmth to your drive.
Quote:People will always want to dance, so the popular music will always accomodate that. All other music is the stuff on the perimeter that mix together to influence the direction of dance music.
Indeed. Square dancing callers fit into a sqaure dancing event, but I don't want to listen to one on a radio either. :blink: A little Waylon and Willie, on the other hand, can fit in just right, although for driving music, I prefer ZZ Top.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete